Archive for April, 2008
Looks can be deceiving
We have recently detected another spam message that contains a malicious URL. This is nothing new, but what if you receive an email message coming from a reliable source, such as a security company?
This is what has happened with a spam message that uses our free online analysis tool Activescan as a bait to [...]
IFRAMES Attack !!! (Update II)
The first thing we observed when we analysed the attack which included an iframe pointing to a malicious website in hundreds of thousands of web pages was that all the compromised websites were in servers with IIS and MSSQL. Initially, the most likely hypothesis was that some known exploit was being used to attack some [...]
Microsoft Security Advisory (932596): Update to Improve Kernel Patch Protection - 4/23/2008
Revision Note: April 23, 2008: Added an FAQ entry about known issues in installing the kernel update Advisory Summary:Security Advisory